Astronomers announced on December 22, 2021, that they’ve found somewhere between 70 and 170 rogue, or free-floating, planets; that is, planets not currently in orbit around a star.
The peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy published the rogue planet discovery on December 22, 2021.
Definition Of Planets Needs to Change, Pluto Should Be Reinstated: Researchers
The grounds on which Pluto has discarded the status of a planet is based on folklore and astrology, and needs to be rethought, says a new study .
According to the definition, a planet must be spherical, should revolve around the sun, and should be the dominant gravitational entity in its orbit.
Major skywatching events in 2022: From alignment of planets, meteor showers to eclipses and more
Venus, which shines brightly in the skies will reach its peak of enlightenment on February 13. The best time to watch it will be a couple of hours before sunrise in the morning sky.
Skywatchers are in for a treat before sunrise, early in the morning on April 5, when Mars will just be 0.4 degrees below Saturn in the east-Southeast sky. Gazers would be able to witness the colour contrast between the two planets, a yellow-white Saturn and an orangish Mars.
New year's mission to start new phase of exoplanet research
A mission to one of the coldest and most remote places on earth will enable a new phase in the search for distant planetary systems.
University of Birmingham PhD researcher Georgina Dransfield has travelled to the Franco-Italian Concordia Research Station in Antarctica, to oversee the installation of a new state-of-the-art camera at the ASTEP (Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets) telescope.
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If everything goes according to plan, we will soon enter a new era of astronomy. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most expensive and complex space telescope ever built, is now in space, heading to its final destination.
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The Dark Sky Wheel, showing the constellation Orion at six different limiting magnitudes (right), and a photo of Orion (left). What is the limiting magnitude of the photo?
Have you ever wondered how many stars you can see at night? From a perfect dark sky location, free from any light pollution, a person with excellent vision may observe a few thousand stars in the sky at one time!
We're Losing A Planet: Say Goodbye To Venus, Now A Slim Crescent Sinking In The West
UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 30: This set of images taken in 2004 show the phases and relative size of ... [+] Venus as seen from Earth as it moves around the Sun. The images were taken using a websam attached to a 180-cm Maksutov-Newtonian telescope. Photograph by Jamie Cooper.
From where we stand in our orbit of the Sun the closest planet to us, Venus, will come to what astronomers call inferior conjunction on Sunday, January 9.
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